---
title: "Multiple-group Longitudinal Models"
description: > 
  This vignette provides a comprehensive exploration and practical demonstrations of the `getMGroup()` function. This function is designed for the construction of longitudinal mixture models. The models produced by getLGCM(), getLCSM(), getTVC(), getMGM(), and getMediation() can all serve as sub-models within a longitudinal mixture model.
output: rmarkdown::html_vignette
vignette: >
  %\VignetteIndexEntry{getMGroup_examples}
  %\VignetteEngine{knitr::rmarkdown}
  %\VignetteEncoding{UTF-8}
---

```{r, include = FALSE}
knitr::opts_chunk$set(
  collapse = TRUE,
  comment = "#>"
)
```

## Load nlpsem package, dependent packages and set CSOLNP as the optimizer
```{r, message = FALSE}
library(nlpsem)
mxOption(model = NULL, key = "Default optimizer", "CSOLNP", reset = FALSE)
```

## Load pre-computed models
```{r, message = FALSE}
load(system.file("extdata", "getMGroup_examples.RData", package = "nlpsem"))
```

## Load example data and preprocess data
```{r, message = FALSE, eval = FALSE}
# Load ECLS-K (2011) data
data("RMS_dat")
RMS_dat0 <- RMS_dat
# Re-baseline the data so that the estimated initial status is for the
# starting point of the study
baseT <- RMS_dat0$T1
RMS_dat0$T1 <- RMS_dat0$T1 - baseT
RMS_dat0$T2 <- RMS_dat0$T2 - baseT
RMS_dat0$T3 <- RMS_dat0$T3 - baseT
RMS_dat0$T4 <- RMS_dat0$T4 - baseT
RMS_dat0$T5 <- RMS_dat0$T5 - baseT
RMS_dat0$T6 <- RMS_dat0$T6 - baseT
RMS_dat0$T7 <- RMS_dat0$T7 - baseT
RMS_dat0$T8 <- RMS_dat0$T8 - baseT
RMS_dat0$T9 <- RMS_dat0$T9 - baseT
xstarts <- mean(baseT)
```

## Example: Fit multiple group bilinear spline LGCM to evaluate the difference in the development of mathematics ability
```{r, message = FALSE, eval = FALSE}
MGroup_Math_BLS_LGCM_f <-  getMGroup(
  dat = RMS_dat0, grp_var = "SEX", sub_Model = "LGCM", y_var = "M", t_var = "T",
  records = 1:9, curveFun = "BLS", intrinsic = TRUE, res_scale = list(0.1, 0.1)
)
```

```{r}
Figure1 <- getFigure(
  model = MGroup_Math_BLS_LGCM_f@mxOutput, nClass = 2, cluster_TIC = NULL, grp_var = "SEX", 
  sub_Model = "LGCM", y_var = "M", curveFun = "BLS", y_model = "LGCM", t_var = "T", 
  records = 1:9, m_var = NULL, x_var = NULL, x_type = NULL, xstarts = xstarts, 
  xlab = "Month", outcome = "Mathematics"
)
show(Figure1)
```